Mouth-piece for pipes



(No Model.)

H. C. BOSE.

' MOUTH PIECE FOR. PIPES. I No. 380,520. Patented Apr. 3, 1888 INVENTOR WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY S.

UNITED STATES PATENT HENRY G. ROSE, OF LEADVILLE, COLORADO.

MOUTH-PIECE FOR PIPES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,520, dated April 3, 3.888.

Application tiled December 20,1887. Serial No. 258,453. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY 0. Rose, of Leadville, in the county of Lake and State of 0010- rado, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mouth-Pieces for Pipes, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of a sanitary mouth-piece for pipe-stems and cigar-holders. The hot current of smoke issuing in a single to jet from the ordinary mouth-piece and impinging with concentrated energy upon a single point of the tongue is not only disagreeable to the smoker,but is productive of a diseased condition of the delicate tissues, resulting sometimes in cancer.

My invention is designed to obviate this; and to that end it consists in an attachment to the mouth-piece, formed as a tubular stem with a bulbous end having an annular opening around thebnlb, which allows the smoke to spread and issue in a diffused sheet at right angles to the stem.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side View of my improved month-piece attachment, and Fig. 2is a longitudinal section of the same.

A is the usual bent mouth-piece, and B is my attachment thereto, which consists of a tubular stem, at, terminating in two hemispherical cups, Z) I), which form a bulbous end with an annular opening around the same, which communicates with the interior of the tubular stem at. This attachment is designed to be applied to the usual mouth-piece by forcing the stem a into the opening in the mouthpiece A, where it is held by frictional contact; or it may be screwed into the same.

lVith such construction of mouth-piece it will be seen that the smoke issues in a diffused sheet in the mouth and does not burn the tongue. The all-around character of the annular opening also allows a thread or cord to be passed into the opening to clean it from time to time. This attachment may be made of metal, hard rubber, celluloid, amber, or any other desired material, and it may be made either as a supplemental or detachable section, or it may be constructed in one piece with the ordinary mouth-piece.

I am aware that a mouth-piece has been formed by two hemispherical cups screwed together and provided with an outlet-opening in front. This, however, does not diffuse (and reduce the energy of the smoke) in an annular sheet, and I lay no claim to that construction. but only to my particular arrangement of parts, in which the cups are oppositely faced and spaced so as to leave an annular opening all around and between said cups.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. A mouth-piece having two oppositelyfaced cups spaced a short distance from each other to form an annular outlet, as described.

2. A mouth-piece attachment consisting of a hollow stem with two hemispherical cups attached thereto and facing each other and spaced a short distance apart to leave an annular opening for spreading and diffusing the smoke in a sheet, substantially as described.

HENRY C. ROSE.

Witnesses:

J. J. CROOK, J. E. GRIswoLD. 

